[ofa-general] Re: {PATCH] Documentation/user_mad.txt: Clarify transaction ID usage

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Apr 11 14:02:26 PDT 2007


 > +Transaction IDs
 > +
 > +  Clients of the MAD layer can use the lower 32 bits of the
 > +  transaction ID field to track mad request/response pairs.  The
 > +  upper 32 bits are reserved for use by the kernel ib_mad module.

This is a good addition.  But I think it would be worth saying which
half of the TID is the lower half.  I would fix it up myself but I
don't know off the top of my head which byte order the TID is
interpreted with.

 - R.



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